Originally Posted by
civicmon
I'm a PHL area resident and I fly out of BWI all the time... fares from PHL can be freaking horrible compared to BWI. About 75 miles door-to-door. Typically not MRs but parking at BWI is very reasonable.. I just hate the harbor tunnels at 5pm.
Dulles/DCA OTOH are a bit of a stretch for me.
My only interest in beginning or ending a trip in PHL is to get a great MR when they have them, and it happens not infrequently that they do, with fares considerably cheaper than to/from the WAS airports. I am about equidistant between all three of them, with PHL 128 miles from my door, according to Mapquest. While I tend not to think of Philadelphia as all that far from us, it would have to be a very significant discount on otherwise fairly expensive travel for me to elect to fly ex-PHL, especially since it would mean
something like a 2.5 hour drive to get to the airport and an equally long one on the return home.